Improvement in envelopes



. To all whom't't mayeoneem:

` EDWARD s. ELLIS, QE '.rRENToN, NEW JERSEY.

IM PROVEM ENT IN E'NVELOPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 112,568, dated March14, 1871.

Be it known` that I, EDWARD S. ELLIs, of Trenton, inthe county of Mercerand State of New` Jersey, `have invented a new and usefnl Improvement inALetter-Envelopes; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a Vfull, clear, `and exactdescription thereof,

which'will enable others skilled in the art to make anduse the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this lspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in envelopes for inclosin gletters 5 and it consists in an arrangementcalculated to facilitate theopening of the saine, also to retain the letter after being opened andthe inelosure replaced in it, all as -hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved eni velope when open, previous toinclosing the letter, and Fig."2 is a plan of the same when "the letteris inclosed and the envelope sealed.

Similar letters of reference indicate correl spondin g parts.

Insteadof making the `lapel A in the usual form, I cut out a notch,represented by the lines a. and b, and I make perforations c along thejunction of it with the back of theenvelope to facilitate tearing open,and to -cover the part cut out I provide the long lapel B on the back,and as Wide as the notch in A, Which is to be folded under A and D insealing, as indicated by the dotted lines. readily inserting the thumbor linger between A and B, which are not sealed together, at the anglebetweenthelines a and d, when, by a jerk of the finger downward alongthe perforations c, the part A will be readily sepayrated from the back,and the inclosure may be drawn out, the lapel B being rst withdrawn fromunder A and D. Then, by replacing the letter in the envelope and foldinglapel A back under A and D, it will be retained securely in theenvelope.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters- Patent- A The improvedletter-envelope having the lapel Anotched and perforated, as shown, andprovided Witlilthev lapel B, all substantially as specified. f

EDWARD S. ELLIS. Witnesses: Y

RANDOLPH H. MooRE, W. P. S. BELVILLE.

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